jay horwitz
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Jay HorwitzMedia Relations (PR) for the New York Mets
Alexis Greenauer
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Who is Jay Horwitz?
• He was born in the year 1950 in the NYC area.
• Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.
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Life Timeline:
• He attended college at NYU• Covered the Jets for Herald News• Served as SID for Fairleigh Dickinson University
from 1970-1980• In 1980 he left FDU to work for the New York
Mets eventually becoming the Vice President of Media Relations and Associate Travel Director
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Why did he Want to Work in Sports?• He was brought up a Mets
fan in his family. • His dad bought him season
tickets every year for Christmas
• He loved talking and making people happy so he thought by working with the Mets players and fans he would be able to have a career doing the things he loves.
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Biggest Challenge?
• The biggest challenge is having over 50 clients to take care of.
• Being a PR representative for a baseball team requires you to keep the whole organization in a positive light.
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Workday Timeline:
• Days include:– Waking up around 5AM
for day games; 10AM for night games.
– Has personal meetings with players.
– Watches every day from the dugout.
– Has meetings before press conferences
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Daily Hours and Traveling
• Hours include working 13 ½ each day and 5 hours each weekend which equals 72 hours a week.
• Baseball PR spokesman travel all year around.
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Advice from Horwitz
• Always pay attention to the people you work with, you never know who will be a good contact in the future.
• Work your hardest, be the person people look up to.
• Always make time for your family, they are your number one support system.
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Video:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1kEmdJjWtc
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Kevin Flanery Presdient of Churchill Downs
Alexis Greenauer
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What Does a President of a Company do:
• The job title, president, refers to the head of an organization as in the person who presides over or is in charge of an organization.
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Career Path:
• Has a B.A. in psychology from Bellarmine College and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky
• First job was cutting grass
• Previous job Senior vice president of national public affairs and communications
• Got where he is by always working hard and working from the bottom up.
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Advice to Aspiring Company Presidents:
• Work your hardest• If it is your passion, pursue it. Think about
what the sport can be, not what it has been. We need creative thinkers to present the sport to the next generation.
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Interesting Facts:
• He likes Abraham Lincoln because of all the struggles he went through and still managed to leave a change on our country.
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